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CLAY COURSE: Pottery with Glaze Focus (10 weeks)

Messums Creative

Friday daytime adult class with a focus on understanding glazes.

Dates: 21 January – 1 April (Half term: 25 February)
Times: 10.30am – 1.30pm

Tutor: Mirka Golden-Hann

This is an ideal class for those ceramics and pottery students, beginners and more advanced who, whilst engaging in clay making, also wish to gain a deeper understanding of how ceramic glazes work. As well as covering many hand-building methods and throwing on the potters wheel, this course will include an element of glaze experimentation and development.

£220.00

Sculpting is Human

Messums Creative

This is an introduction to sculpting the human form in clay. In this course tutor Finn Bush will help you to create studies and maquettes of the human form capturing posture, movement and charisma of a personality.

£120.00

ONLINE TALK: Contemporary African Photography in Focus

Online

On the occasion of Messums London first contemporary photography exhibition 'Resonances', visual artists Nii Obodai and Justin Keene will be in conversation with Stephanie Blomkamp, founder of Oath magazine, on the visibility, circulation and championing of African photography today.

Free

Make a Money Box

Messums Creative

Family workshop. Come and create a money box of any shape. A building or creature? Quirky monster with five arms, an as yet undiscovered dinosaur or a happy Mr Piggy … Using clay and your wildest imagination, this will be a morning of fun and creativity.

£15 – £25

Animals in Relief

Messums Creative

Half-day sculpture course for families
A chance to take out from your imagination and into material reality the personality and quirks of your favourite creatures.
Come to create lively designs from the observation of characterful animals.

£15 – £25

Gargoyles and Hypnotic Faces

Messums Creative

MESSUMS MAKERS – Half-day sculpture course for families
Made as a standalone sculpture, using clay in an expressive and improvised manner, you will have the chance to learn how to express yourself through the creation of a grimacing face.

£15 – £25

Family Potter’s Wheel Weekend

Messums Creative

Have you always wanted to make a pot on a potter’s wheel? Now is your chance to come with your family.
These sessions are intended for families with children aged 10+ to come together to have a go or improve their skills on the potter’s wheel.

£40.00

PREVIEW: Canadian Ceramics Exhibitions

Messums Wiltshire

Join us for the preview of 'No Boundaries - Contemporary Canadian Ceramic' featuring artists Walter Ostrom, Gregory Payce & Linda Sormin in the Long Gallery shown alongside a solo exhibition by Linda Sormin in the tithe barn.

Free

Sculpture Course: Vessels of the Forest

Messums Creative

ONE DAY SCULPTURE COURSES – Series of sculpture courses inspired by the exhibition programme at Messums Wiltshire
Sculpting improvised forms related to branch, leaf, creature and our entanglement with the depths of the forest. In this course you can make forms such as vase, bowl, container or just a wonderful sculpted and dramatic reflection on structure which might remind you of the mystery of nature and growth.

£120.00